rug rat

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Recent Examples of rug rat Third row seats are best left for rug rats, or folded. cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020 Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet? Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rug rat
Noun
  • The program is designed for preschoolers, but children of all ages are welcome.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But there is a use of color and line and form that's not found in typical preschoolers.
    Susan Spencer, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, pits a growing nationwide effort to strengthen protections for minors online against a booming multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Detectives are concerned about possible other unreported cases, saying the former church volunteer may have had access to other minors through his position at his church, as well as in different roles outside of the church.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The report found that 50 per 100,000 in adolescents assigned female at birth and 25 per 100,000 in adolescents assigned male at birth received hormones.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Adding fluoride to community drinking water is credited with reducing the average number of teeth with cavities by 44% in adults and 58% in adolescents since the 1960s, the health service says.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But vaccination rates among children have fallen; only about 92% of kindergartners had gotten their DTaP vaccine for the 2023-2024 school year, below the 95% federal target and leaving thousands of schoolchildren vulnerable.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • This is happening as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the vaccination rate among kindergartners is dropping, and more and more parents are seeking exemptions to school vaccine requirements.
    NPR, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The peewee population interacted with each other in various settings and included bocce bowlers, bare-bottomed peasants, baguette bakers, blind men, the mustachioed mayor, female fishmongers, dunce hat-wearing schoolboys, snail saleswomen, and gobs more characters.
    gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
  • At Exeter City, he was rejected once before belatedly signing schoolboy forms.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Internet users can't get enough of the love between the infant and her granddad, who takes care of her from Monday to Friday when Rogers is at work.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The video, which was not ultimately shown to Lively, featured an image of Heath, his wife, and their newborn after a home birth.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • As such, Herod’s massacre would have evoked a familiar Old Testament story in which the Egyptian Pharaoh orders all Jewish newborns to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the infant Moses.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Rug rat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rug%20rat. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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